Dangerous Neighborhoods

If Chicago's West and South sides were their own cities, they'd be the deadliest and most violent in America:

• Collectively, according to a Chicago Reporter analysis, Chicago's 11th and 15th police districts on the West Side had a higher murder rate last year than New Orleans, the nation's deadliest city in 2009. Meanwhile, on the South Side, collectively, the 6th and 7th districts had a higher rate of violent crime than St. Louis, the nation's leading city for violent crime per capita in 2009.
  
  In 2009, the 6th, 7th, 11th and 15th police districts had the four highest murder rates, among Chicago's 25 police districts. Those districts were also home to four of the city's five highest rates of violent crime.

So is there any way we can encourage these parts of town to secede from Chicago? Or the better-behaved portions can take their votes and tax money and leave for the 'burbs?

Just so we can leave Shortshanks in the shithole he's created one way or the other.